Historical Marker
Herndon Blacksmith Shops
Historical marker location:
797 Station Street, Herndon, Virginia
( Marker is on Lynn Street north of Station Street, on the right when traveling north.)
The first slave ship to arrive in the American colonies landed in Virginia in 1619. Virginia became a center of the transatlantic slave trade, and by 1860, Virginia had the largest population of enslaved people in the United States.